Open Access<p>Time-Varying Effects of Marital Status on Gastric Cancer: A Population-Based Study</p>
Author(s) -
Bofei Li,
Xingbang Hu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cancer management and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 1179-1322
DOI - 10.2147/cmar.s234738
Subject(s) - medicine , marital status , hazard ratio , cancer , proportional hazards model , epidemiology , demography , population , log rank test , survival analysis , confidence interval , sociology , environmental health
Although prior studies have shown that marital status affects the prognosis of patients with gastric cancer, its time-varying effects are not well understood. We aimed to investigate the changes in marital status' impact over a 10-year follow-up time among patients with gastric cancer (GC) in the United States.